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remain in a group of comparable mental age and allow the retarded and definitely educable
children to proceed at a somewhat faster pace.
The other matter I wished to comment on is that there is a great need in the county
for residential units for the few extremely difficult in fact psychotic adolescents
that we. sometimes get in Harrow Green. These are mainly boys from the age of 14 upwards.
In the past year Harrow Green has had to cope with an extremely disturbed boy. Attempts
have been made by the psychiatrist who deals with this boy to find a suitable place
where he could have treatment as well as education,but so far the quest has been
unsuccessful.
Another very distressed and pressed boy was sent to the school for a trial period
a few weeks before the end of 1963 but it has been found impossible either to keep him
or to help him. He urgently requires psychiatric treatment in a residential institution
but again difficulty is found in placing him in a suitable treatment centre because of
his age.
LEYTON, LEA BRIDGE MALADJUSTED SPECIAL SCHOOL
SPECIAL MEDICAL INSPECTIONS
Boys Girls
No. examined 18 2
Parents present 3 1
Unsatisfactory 6 2
DEFECTS FOUND -
Code No. 4 Skin 3
5 Squint 1
6 Otitis 1
8 Stammer 1
12 Undescended Testes 1
13 Pes Planus 1
14 Migraine 1
18 Abdominal pain 1
Four children were recommended for recuperative holiday treatment but only one
accepted the offer.
The numbers at the school have remained around 32 during 1963. Four children
recommended for admission in the autumn term, owing to illness or home difficulties,
have so far failed to take up their places.
Ten children were transferred during the year to other schools and there were ten
new admissions. One boy returned to a junior school, one was admitted to an educationally
sub-normal school, two girls and a boy returned to secondary modern schools and four
boys and one girl were admitted to a residential school.
The children recommended for admission have a medical examination before coming
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